Saturday, January 01, 2011

DearREADERS,
Ol' Myrt here has been busy as a bee over the holidays, revising DearMYRTLE's Organization Checklists -- which haven't been updated in two years. I don't know about you, but this past year wasn't the best for getting much of anything done, let alone talking with others about being organized!

Its a .PDF file, and all the links are clickable if you read the document while online. Significant changes to the January Checklist include:

Setting up your Dropbox account so your data is backed up automatically when Dropbox synchronizes folders

Creating folders on your hard drive to place scanned images of documents.

Participating in the first of monthly "Scanfests" hosted by Miriam Robbins Midkiff. (That will make 3 hours of active scanning of photos and related documents!)

So where once I dragged you kicking and screaming out on to the 'net to do some research, now Ol' Myrt is encouraging you to digitize your family history and keep it in a safe place off-site. Now GO FOR IT!

16 comments:

I knew I have been procrastinating finishing my COG plans for 2011 for a reason. Sometimes good things come to those who wait. I was searching for your 2009 series to add to my organization goals and found this update. Thank you so much for helping us with this great series!!!

Last year at SLIG I asked you about the monthly organization pdfs (I could only find 6 months worth) and you said you were working on something. Thank you, thank you, thank you - now I need to follow through!

I found this post today. Luckily I had already setup a dropbox account because of your comments in a previous post about how wonderful it is so I am almost caught up! I made a resolution to get my genealogy stuff organized this year - Now I have a plan!!

Once she marries, she her records and photos are in the surname binder for her spouse (with a cross-reference to the maiden name surname binder since she is listed with her maiden name, and her parents name are listed on the family group sheet with her spouses.

Just to clarify... my grandmother remarried after my grandfather. She passed away with that new surname. So I would create a new tab for the 2nd husband's surname and put all her information there under the DIRECT tab after she married him? I'm sorry if I'm not understanding correctly. I do appreciate your help!